The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1887-12-30

carriage of fire to take him I'D. WHY not Jesu
a carriage Of fire to fetch Him down! Or. owe
the arched bridge OF rainbow the LORD
| might have descended. Or Christ might have
had His mortality built up on eartlhout of thu
gust or garden, as was Adam, in full man
mood at the start without the INTRODUCTORY
teebleness of infancy. No, MOI Childhood
was to be honored by that advent He must
nave a chlld'S light limbs, ands a child'i
dlmpled hand, and chid's beaming eve and
a child's fiaxen hair, and babvhood was to be
honored for all time to come and a cradle
was 10 mean more than grave. Mighty God
May the reflection of that one Child's face be
seen in all infantile faces. Enough have all
those fathers and mothers on hand if they
! nave child In the house. A throne, q crown
scepter, a kingdom under charge Be care
| 1ul how YOU strike him across the head, jar
| ring the brain. What you say TO him will be
centennial and mtllennial and a hundred
years and thousand years will not stop the
/ echo and eechO. Do not say, 1T Is only d
| child" Rather say, 'It is only an immortal
| 1t is only masterpiece of jehovah. 1t is
| only being that shall Outlive sun and moon
| and star, and ages quadrilennial. God has
! Infinite reso urces and He can give presents of
| great value, but when He wants to give the
richest possible gift to a household He looks
around all the worlds and all the universe
and then gives a child.
GODS GREATEST PRESENT.
The greatest present that God ever gave our
world he gave about 1887 years ago, and he
gave it on Christmas night, and it was of
such value that heaven adjourned for recess
and came down and broke through the clouds
to look at it. Yes, in all ages God has honor
ed childhood. He makes almost every picture
failure unless there be child either playing
on the floor or looking through the window,
or seated on the lap gazing into the face of
its mother. 1t was a child in Naarnan's
kitchen that told the great Syrian warrior
where he might go and get cured of the lep-
rosy. which at his seventh plunge in the Jor-
dan was left at the bottom Of the river. 1t was
to the cradle of leaves in which q child was
Ia d rocked by the Nile that God called the at
tcntion of history. 1t was a sick child that
evoked Christs curative sympathes. 1t was
child that Christ set in The midst of the
ssquabbling disciples to teach the lesson of
humility. We are informed that wolf and
leopard and Ion shall yet be so domesticated
that little child shall lead them. A child de-
clded Waterloo, showing the army of Butcher
how they could take short cut through the
lleIds when ii the old road had been followed,
the Prussian general would have come up too
late TO save the destinies of Europe 1t was a
cnllq that decided Gettysburg, he having
overheard two confederate generals in a con.
yersation in which they decided to march for
gettysburg instead OF Harrisburg, and this.
reported to Governor Curtin the federal
forces started to meet their opponents at
gettysburg. And the child of to-day is to de-
settle all the destinies and usher in the
worlds salvation or destruction. Men. women
nations all earth and all heaven behold the
child is there any velvet so soft as a child's
cheek9 Is there any music so sweet as the
child's voice Is there any sky so blue as a
child's eve! Is there any plume so wayy as a
child's hair?
TRIBUTES PAID TO SCIENCE
r, Notice also that in this Bible night Scene
dod nonored science. Who are the three wise
men kneeling before the divine infant? Not
Doors, not ignOramuses, but Caspar BeItha |
sar and Melchior, men who knew all that was
10 be known. They were the Isaac Newtons
ana Hersches and Faradays of their time. |
lhelr alchemy was the fOrGunner of our sub |
lme chemistry, their astrOlOgy the mother of |
our magnificent astronomy. They had studied |
'tars, studied metals, studied physiology, |
scientists bowling before the beautiful babe | |
zee the prophecy Of the time when all the tel
scopes and microscopes, and all the Leyden
airs, ana all the electric batteries and all the
'bservatories, and all the universities shall
low to Jesus. It is much that way already
Where Is the college that does not have morn
ne prayers, thus bowling at the manager? Who
ave been the greatest physicians! Omitting
ne names Of the living, lest we should be in
idious, have we not had among them Chris
ian men men like our own Joseph c. Hutchinson
nj Rush and Valentine Mott and AbercrOm-
lie and Abernethy! Who have been our
reatest scientists2 Joseph Henry who lived
M died in the faith of the gospel, and, Agas-
H. who, standing with his students among
he hills, took off his hat and said: Young
entemcn, before we study these rocks let us
ray Tor wisdom to the God who made the
Ocks." To-day the greatest doctors and law
ers OF Brooklyn and New York, and OF all
his land, and of all lands, revere the Chris
an religion, are not ashamed to saw so
efore Jures and legislatures and senates
III geology will yet bow before the Rock of
ges.
All botany will vet worship the rose of
harOn. All astronomy will yet recognize the
ar OF Bethlehem. And physiology and auat-
my will yet join hands aud say: ave must.
the help OF God, get the human race up to
he perfect nerve, and perfect muscle, and
ariect brain, and perfect form Of that perfect |
aid before whom, nigh twenty hundred years
20, Caspar and Belthasar and Melchior
ent their tired knees in worship"
TIL FIELDS ALSO BLESSED.
Behold also in that first Christmas night
lat GOD honored the fields. Come in. shep-
-rd boys to Bethlehem and see the child
No." they say, I'VE are not dressed good
Tough to come in" Eyes, you are; come in"
Ire enough, the storms, and the night dew.
~ the brambleS have made rough work
lth their apparel but none have a better {
Eht 10 come IN. They were the first to hear
e music OF that Christmas night. The first !
those men in the fields. There were wise. t
res that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem {
orlng IN deep sleep, and there were salarfed
hcers OF government who hearing of it after
ara may have thought they ought TO have /
I'd the first news of such great event. some
lie dismountng from a swift camel at their I
or and knocking till at some sentinel's
Iestion: "Who comes there!" the great
eS OF the palace might have been told of the l
lestial arrival No: the Shepherds i
ard the first two bars Of the (
usic, the first in the major KEY and :
e last in the subdued minor: GLORY 10
3d In the highest, and on earth peace, good
II to men" All, YES; the fields were honor i
= The old shepherds with plaid and crook T
We for the most part vanished. but we have ,.
azing-our United States pasture fields and !
airie Is about fortYfve million sheeD-and v
their keepers ought to follow the shepherds O
my text and all those who toll in fields, all
ne dressers all Orchardists all husbandmen.
IT only that Christmas night, but all I'D and